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I overwintered about 40 onions.
Pulled one to see how they were doing.
A lovely spring onion to go with a decent crop of lettuce.
This is my first time overwintering anything and it's lovely having some fresh crops in the spring.
They do take ages though.Planted the onions in november I think.0 -
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CelticRambler wrote: »I've moved my pumpkins, gerkhins and tomatoes outside, putting them into holes in that heap of grass that I laid out the other day, and covering the plants and grass with a mini tunnel. I'm counting on the heat of decomposition to keep any frost at bay (I didn't measure it, but after just two days the base of the heap feels like it's about 15°C or more).
Our forecast here (central France) is for a two weeks of sun with temps in the high teens, so I've taken a chance and sowed a few lines of carrots today, along with a line of peas.
Well ... none of that worked out as planned. While I was away, we seem to have had a combination of exceptionally hot temperatures and extreme wind-driven drought. :eek: Unfortunately, whatever humidity was contributed to the tunnel by the freshly mown grass was blown away and almost everything reduced to shrivelled débris.
Fortunately, the slower/later germinating seeds still in the propagator (inside in the gloom) were OK (cherry tomatoes, jalapeño chilies, red/green peppers, charentais melons), and I have (hopefully) not lost too much time with the replacements for regular tomatoes, pumpkins and gerkins.
In the meantime, I've made the best of a week's unbroken sunshine and temperatures around 24-26°C
getting a patch of ground (planted for the first time last year) ready for this year's crop of potatoes harder than it needed to be!
before
after
This area had obviously been used as a materials depot for the building of a barn "back in the day" - it had a huge quantity of building stone in one area, and a massive amount of gravelly clay in another (by which I mean real clay, the kind the children would dig out of the ground and make pottery with :eek: ).
After strimming and rotavating last year, I planted it with potatoes, onions and beetroot, and regularly added grass clippings between the drills (at least until the grass stopped growing in June). The photo above shows it after two passes of the rotavator on Wednesday morning, which (with the additional help of a fork) brought another load of stone to the surface. Although it's still very clay-ey, it's already very much improved. No manure, no glyphosate.
And all that stone ... ? Barrow after barrow taken to the courtyard ...
... and used to tidy up a raised bed.
(and there's still about three times as much looking for another project).0 -
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BrownFinger wrote: »Yes it heated but I did lose a chunk of them.
Live and learn I suppose!!
It was mostly the pumpkins and the BNS I lost.
Going to sew a few more soon and try again.
Really want to get an Atlantic giant this year.
I had the same issue myself last year. I had great success in germination, but struggled beyond that point as the glasshouse was not warm enough to sustain them (mine is not heated), and lost a lot of stuff.
I delayed the sowing this year, outside of peppers really, until now so will see if that makes a difference.
Good luck with the pumpkins 0 -
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Spuds sneaking through, planted 10 in all which for a singleton ought to be enough in summer.
Lettuce and onions progressing and a batch of spicy greens seeds went into a tray yesterday
hopefully they'll be in the ground by this date next month.0 -
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Harry Palmr wrote: »Spuds sneaking through, planted 10 in all which for a singleton ought to be enough in summer.
Ten??? :eek:
That'd never do me for a summer, never mind the rest of the year! So far, I've planted 200 and wondering where I can fit another 75 ...
Still have about 30kg left from last year's harvest, hoping that'll get me through to this year's earlies!0 -
My current "work in progress" - charentais melons, red cabbage, sweetcorn, sweet peas (not for eating!), red/green peppers, jalapeño chilis, cherry tomatoes, lettuce, white onions, gherkins, normal tomatoes, sunflowers, ornamental gourds, pattypan squash, physalis and basil.
Peas, carrots, celery, onions, garlic, shallots, potatoes and winter-sown lettuce are in the ground; pumpkins, parsley and more peppers and tomatoes are in the propagator. Beetroot and more lettuce to be sown this week or next (have switched my attention to flowers and flowerbeds for the moment).
(Nearly everything there was grown from Lidl's 29ct packets of seeds. Once you get used to getting "ten different things for the price of one regular packet", it's very hard to go back to the mainstream brands. ) 0 -
CelticRambler wrote: »Ten??? :eek:
That'd never do me for a summer, never mind the rest of the year! So far, I've planted 200 and wondering where I can fit another 75 ...
Still have about 30kg left from last year's harvest, hoping that'll get me through to this year's earlies!
If 10 seed potatoes yields about 60-70 actual ones that'll do for me!0 -
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It's amazing how stuff grows when you're not really watching it. Then and now pix really hammer hom how quickly everything moves in an Irish spring.
Spuds - about 10 days between the two.
Onions and lettuce
and my sickly Tumbling Tom now flying
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Living Off The Splash wrote: »A whole row of my seedling Swedes wolfed by a slug overnight. He has gone to slug heaven...
well he died happy at least! 0 -
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CelticRambler wrote: »Garlic likes a good cold spell and although I have a few feral plants from bulbs that escaped being harvested last year, I'm not hopeful of a good crop this year from anything that needs a hard frost.
On the other hand, I already have a drill of potatoes growing nicely - it's an experiment, to see if I can have new potatoes for St. Patrick's Day!
Well, the feral garlic is doing really well, as is the planted garlic, so the lack of a really hard winter didn't seem to upset it. Good to know for future years.
As for the potatoes, I didn't have new potatoes mid-March, but then I didn't go looking for them either seeing as I still had tens of kilos of last years' crop to work through.
Here they are, though: self-sown (winter) on the right, compared to March-sown earlies (Sirtema) front left, between two rows of onions, and April-sown maincrop (Charlotte and Desirée) in the background.
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